My only BI campaign so far WRE vh/vh finished 380.

I played predictably along the lines I've just read in the guides, except for markets/traders.

Because WRE is generally overpopulated I didn't build or even in some cases destroyed buildings which stimulated population, particularly traders/markets (and also farms/upgrades) .

I always concentrated on ports/upgrades first , and largely ignored changing religion.

I was never really was short of $'s (see below)and so wonder whether you guys consider traders/markets are really worth bothering about.? They just seems to make overpopulation worse.


Below: I was briefly short of $ when I overdid spreading the plague about, I'd forgotten it stopped trade as well as reducing population, one turn I had 7 cities infected and >20k dead.